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TIL A total of 48 people went to jail for watergate.

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lokdB TIL Queen Victoria was buried in a white dress and her wedding veil, alongside many mementos. Her late husband's dressing gown and a plaster cast of his hand was placed beside her, and a lock of her favourite servant John Brown's hair along with his photo was placed in her left hand.
ay4b TIL of the Hinterkaifeck murders in 1922. The farmer claimed he saw footsteps leading to the home, but not away. The family was later speculated to have been lured, one by one, into the barn where they were killed.
4XGnb TIL Moray Eels have a second set of extendable "jaws" inside their throat called the pharyngeal jaw that grab onto prey and pull it down the eel's throat. They are thought to be a modified gill structure that has developed a secondary set of teeth.
yx78 TIL that the Masaai people of Kenya donated fourteen cows to the US after 9/11.
YpmwP TIL Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. The first call was from Martin Cooper (Motorola) to his rival Joel Engel (Bell Labs). The phone weighed 1.1kg, had talk time of 30 minutes and took 10 hours to recharge.